How to Use terawatt in a Sentence

terawatt

noun
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  • Now, China and the U.S. still tip the scales at well into the thousands of terawatt hours each year.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 12 Feb. 2021
  • In May, production rose 10% compared to the previous year to reach a record 27 terawatt hours.
    — William Mathis, Fortune, 3 June 2023
  • On average, the amount of power used by humans is about 18 terawatts.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 14 Sep. 2019
  • For context, a terawatt is a thousand times bigger than a gigawatt.
    — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Lignite generation in the six months through June fell 28% from a year earlier at RWE, a drop of 9.9 terawatt-hours.
    — David Fickling | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2019
  • The lingering winter weather means that there’s as much as 100 terawatt-hours of water left to melt, according to Nena.
    — Jesper Starn, Bloomberg.com, 11 May 2017
  • But, according to Bloomberg, the second terawatt of solar power capacity will be installed over the next four years as the world races to net zero.
    — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2022
  • The researchers simulated the effects of around 79 terawatts of solar panels and 3 terawatts of wind turbines.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 7 Sep. 2018
  • That process consumes the same amount of energy annually (around 78.5 terawatt-hours) as nations like Chile, Austria and Finland.
    — Jonathan Ponciano, Forbes, 13 May 2021
  • Put another way, one terawatt is also equivalent to one billion watts.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The industry can save only two to three terawatt hours by using alternative fuels.
    — Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 27 July 2022
  • The report notes as of Tuesday, electricity consumption from Bitcoin rose to a record high of 47.4 terawatt-hours, citing the Digiconomist bitcoin analysis blog.
    — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Their analysis indicates that the heat transfer from expelling these materials equals around a terawatt — about double the energy required to power the U.S. at once.
    — Claire Bugos, Discover Magazine, 10 May 2021
  • According to Techspot, data centers consume more than 205 terawatt hours of electricity per year.
    — Sanjoy Maity, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • According to Time magazine, Ethereum mining consumes about 26.5 terawatt-hours of electricity a year, nearly as much as the entire country of Ireland.
    — Alicia Eler, Star Tribune, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Using a high-repetition-rate terawatt laser, the equipment was set up next to a telecommunication tower that is one of Europe's structures most affected by lightning.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Global energy use of all types (including fuels) is about 18 terawatts today, so this is a scenario where all the fuel a growing world could want are made in the Sahara, and Africa's drinking water is probably desalinated, to boot.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 8 Sep. 2018
  • To put that number in perspective, the total amount of solar power added by all the world’s nations in 2017 was slightly less than a tenth of a terawatt, so this research isn’t immediately relevant for today’s renewable installations.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 7 Sep. 2018
  • According to the bitcoin energy consumption tracker at Digiconomist, bitcoin currently consumes 66.7 terawatt-hours per year.
    — Umair Irfan, Vox, 18 June 2019
  • Planned hydrogen electrolyzer projects globally have jumped by 18% in the last six months, surpassing one terawatt of electricity capacity for the first time, according to a semi annual report by Aurora Energy Research.
    — Will Horner, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2023
  • By comparison, photovoltaic solar power recently exceeded one terawatt, or 1,000 gigawatts, of capacity.
    — Jackie Snow, WSJ, 24 Apr. 2022

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